Chests of little girls

Like someone asked - should she cover her chest? One suggestion was yes, by burial on a desert island!

But what should a chest of a LG be like, what should be in it, how should she get it?

Surely, a dowry could be collected into a bottom drawer - but bottom drawer is not easily portable!

What should be the target size, shape, empty and loaded weight of a LG-s chest?

What kind of lid - domed, gabled, sloping or flat? If flat, should the lid double as table when closed? Or should it be covered with upholstery to sit on it or, if the chest is big enough (and some, e. g. cassoni, are longer than an adult) to sleep on it?

When, and from whom, should a LG get her hope chest?

Should she get it from her groom, in order to grab and pack items from her home and leave with them? Or should she get it before finding a groom, from her parents when it is the time for her to prepare to marry and be ejected from home? And when should a hope chest be acquired? Some birthday in her teens? Some school graduation? Or, instead, soon after birth, for her parents to pack childhood mementoes? Or sometime in between, in childhood?

Could any friend or family member, or a girllover, make a gift of a hope chest to a LG?

Also, should the contents of a hope chest be intended to be shown to, and to be critically examined by, her prospective groom - and her prospective mother-in-law?

What should be in a hope chest? Personally memorable items? Practical items necessary to set up a working household in an empty unfurnished room with her new husband, or in an empty dormitory room if she leaves home for college or boarding school at first? Valuables, doubloons, jewellery and wads of easily portable and hideable banknotes? Or handicraft fashioned by herself through years, to prove a suspicious prospective mother-in-law that she possesses the textile-working skills and inclination to be a good housewife (in addition to practical use of the textiles themselves)?